Anonymous wrote:Underwhelmed West Coast: USC and Stanford. (Overwhelmed: UCLA)

Underwhelmed East Coast: Harvard. I'm there for work a lot and every room is always leaking, but I dislike Boston/Cambridge so I'm probably not best judge (Overwhelmed: Yale .. and I went to Oxford).

Underwhelmed Midwest: Notre Dame. Feels like a country club with no real style. (Overwhelmed: both UChicago and Northwestern. Also Loyola Chicago does what they do very well)

A lot of schools are in areas that were so great back in the day for college kids and now are lined with Brooklinens and Warby Parkers. It's a loss.

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of office parks - U Michigan engineering campus (north campus). Such a disappointment after touring central campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is like a weird Potemkin Village or movie set.

I wish I were jaded enough to toss out such a comment. Yale seemed magical to me as a visitor.

DP. A lot of people find it magical. I really struggled to enjoy the tour and found it extravagantly tasteless and a bit dull (which is a strange mix I wasn’t expecting). The auditorium they sent us into just seemed large but also rundown. We got to tour DC’s department and a residential college, since DC has a few upperclassmen friends there and neither of us were too impressed.

Strange, because DC now goes to Princeton and we both love the campus- which is admittedly quite similar.

I’m the poster you’re responding to and I went to Princeton.

When I first visited Princeton I was young and wide-eyed and thought it was amazing. However, when I later visited Yale I thought it was awesome and had a buzz Princeton lacked. Looking back now, I think the Princeton campus as a whole is nicer but that the individual buildings and quads at Yale are more impressive.

But, again, I’m a pushover…generally find things to like at every college campus and would love to be a student again (apart from the all-nighters to finish my thesis).

I remember going to Princeton, seeing a little row of shops with golf shirts in the window and writing Princeton off as a place for golfers.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke: I know others love it, but the gothic vibe doesn’t jive with me.

Columbia and NYU: No campus feel.

Georgetown (law school only and in the 90’s): Yuck.

UC Hastings (now called something else): Also yuck.

From a distance, Duke’s gothic buildings don’t look much different from those at BC or Northwestern. But up close, Duke’s buildings’ individual stones are offset from each other in a way that they produce a very uneven and jarring effect. I would imagine the people who work or study there eventually get accustomed to it.

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It's a world unesco site. And Poe's room is on display. And Montecello. And the vineyards around C'vile. And the beauty of the countryside. If you can't appreciate any of that then the problem is you so I can tell your kid didn't get in. Take your sour grapes elseshere.

For every room in which Poe wrote masterpieces, there are probably 10 rooms in which Teddy Kennedy barfed.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard

Right. I went there. Tell me exactly what was disappointing. Oh Yeah, you're the mom who complained about brown grass in Harvard Yard not realizing the protesters had slept on it for months.

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Anonymous wrote:It's as bit more than a view.

It’s just a view. Not like you’re on a fancy island. Lord, NU alum can’t handle that not everyone wants their precious school.

Weird escalation.

The posters who excessively attack a certain school are far more deranged than those who excessively boost a certain school.

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Right. I went there. Tell me exactly what was disappointing. Oh Yeah, you're the mom who complained about brown grass in Harvard Yard not realizing the protesters had slept on it for months.

DP. My kid wants to study math and we went to what I believe was the math department, and it seemed like a crummy afterthought. Very unimpressive. Other buildings were much nicer.

I’m laughing at the Yale comment. 😅

Well it’s not exactly like Kline tower is an architectural marvel. Most math departments are put into decrepit buildings, since math majors really only need old blackboards and textbooks. A school where this is very obvious is UT: look at their math building then look at their engineering building. Night and day.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that so much is about individual taste...and, unfortunately, the weather on the day of the tour.

Luckily my kid didn't seem to give a hoot about the look of a campus. In fact he liked schools that had no discernable campus like BU. So while I shared some of the opinions on this thread, I kept them to myself!

With so many beautiful campuses in the country, I always wondered who would pick BU. Now I know. Thanks!

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It's a world unesco site. And Poe's room is on display. And Montecello. And the vineyards around C'vile. And the beauty of the countryside. If you can't appreciate any of that then the problem is you so I can tell your kid didn't get in. Take your sour grapes elseshere.